LONDON (REUTERS).- “Visitors may find some images in this exhibition disturbing,” reads a sign at the entrance to the Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition: “Skin.” “Skin” tracks attitudes toward the human body’s largest organ since the 15th century …
London Show Explores Skin as Human Body’s Frontier
LONDON (REUTERS).- “Visitors may find some images in this exhibition disturbing,” reads a sign at the entrance to the Wellcome Collection’s latest exhibition: “Skin.” “Skin” tracks attitudes toward the human body’s largest organ since the 15th century …
Cartier-Bresson Exhibit Tells Stories in Decisive Moments
CHICAGO, IL (AP).- Henri Cartier-Bresson famously said a good photograph captures the “decisive moment,” but the comment is often misunderstood. Cartier-Bresson, who traveled the globe shooting many of the 20th century’s major events, was less interest…
Exhibition at Museum of Fine Arts Features Acclaimed Series, The Brown Sisters
BOSTON, MA.- Themes such as the passage of time and the enduring nature of close family relationships are brought into focus in the exhibition Nicholas Nixon: Family Album at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). The show, on view from July 28, 2010, …
Robert Capa Exhibition at Círculo de Bellas Artes Focuses on Famous Photograph
MADRID.- Robert Capa is, without a doubt, one of the leading photographers of the twentieth century. His most striking images—of the Spanish Civil War, of the Sino-Japanese conflict, of World War II—all appeared in the pages of the leading pi…
Adam Magyar to Photograph Hundreds of People "Walk the Walk"
LONDON.- Hundreds of members of the public
to be
invited to participate in two revolutionary photographic commissions to
create
public art installations using Olympic finish line technology in London
and
Birmingham In association with Rhub…
The Wapping Project Bankside Presents Photography by Stephen J Morgan
LONDON.- In a series of understated and eloquent photographs, Stephen J Morgan encapsulates Birmingham with a measured beauty, capturing its Irishness and its brutal ugliness. Falling into the centre of mainstream European fine art photography, Stephen…
The Anatomy of Movement: Harold Edgerton- An Interview with the Curators
MADRID.- A Professor of Electrical Engineering, Harold Edgerton is considered more of a scientist than an artist. Combining the stroboscopic process with the camera’s flash, Edgerton was able to photograph an entire range of movement that could n…
WWII Nurse in Iconic Times Square Kissing Photo Dies
LOS ANGELES (REUTERS).- A nurse famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York’s Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said on Tuesday. The V-J Day picture of the white-cl…
Records Abound at New York City Polaroid Photo Auction
NEW YORK (AP).- A historic sale of works by some of the biggest names in 20th-century photography set records during a two-day auction of iconic images from the Polaroid corporate collection that concluded Tuesday. The auction of more than 1,000 photog…